Re:The Facebook whistleblower is heroic and terribly wrong
by rektide on Thursday October 07, 2021 @03:55PM
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> But apparently they can be dodged with a truckload of political contributions.
I like your rage. I think it's mis-targetted though. In the Reagan era, Supreme Court nominee & Nixon criminal Robert Bork got put in charge of the FTC, and re-defined Anti-Trust to only apply when consumer prices went up. Any other kind of monopoly was ok. Because of this, the FTC hasn't has a regulatory basis to manage jack nor shit for 40 years. This isn't just the typical dump-truck-loads full of money problem: this is a 4 decade old crisis of the government being unable and unwilling to govern.
Cory Doctorow has many great threads on this all, but here's two:
I like your rage. I think it's mis-targetted though. In the Reagan era, Supreme Court nominee & Nixon criminal Robert Bork got put in charge of the FTC, and re-defined Anti-Trust to only apply when consumer prices went up. Any other kind of monopoly was ok. Because of this, the FTC hasn't has a regulatory basis to manage jack nor shit for 40 years. This isn't just the typical dump-truck-loads full of money problem: this is a 4 decade old crisis of the government being unable and unwilling to govern.
Cory Doctorow has many great threads on this all, but here's two:
https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/10/borked/#zucked
https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/06/calera/#fuck-bork
America needs to unwind the damage of Borkism, & start trying to regulate itself. Right now, we cannot.